According to January 7, 2009, The Smoking Gun, in an unbelievable blooper, U. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald accidently e-mailed to reporters the true identities of nearly 20 of the confidential witnesses he interviewed during an investigation of a fraud case. The mailing was actually a 62-page U.S. District Court complaint filed against John Walsh and Charles Martin, principals of the now-defunct One World Capital Group. Unfortunately, the key to the named sources in the document (which were supposed to be confidential) was also included, so that there was no confidentiality. Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn immediately sent an urgent follow-up e-mail asking journalists to destroy the complaint due to the "non-public information disclosing the identities of persons not named in the affidavit.
Patrick Fitzgerald is currently involved in the Rod Blagojevich investigation and was one of the main investigators in the Tony Rezko case (which supposedly was leading to an investigation of ACORN). Anyone can push a wrong button or e-mail something extra unintentionally, but I suspect the people whose names were accidently released are not feeling too comfortable.
Just an aside, I haven't heard anything lately about the investigations of Tony Rezko or ACORN. I wonder where those investigations are standing. I know that Tony Rezko has already been tried, but I am not sure if any links to ACORN were actually followed up on. That would be interesting to know.
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